Every centralized app ultimately leverages it's position to make money off bilateral transactions. in other words. rent seeking is a constant temptation for centralized players.


GM Nostr ☕

Back at HQ after a pretty epic week in Oslo for the Freedom Forum.

Reminder for you UK 🇬🇧 Bitcoiners, you can now but Passport directly from the guys at LNbits. No hidden HMRC taxes 👍

https://shop.lnbits.com/product/foundation-passport


There are always many things you can do with your time, but implementing silent payments (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki) for Core Lightning is rising in my to-do list.

Unfortunately, we are all PSBT internally, so we need support so we can receive, which the authors argue (sensibly) should be the first priority for wallets. There's a delving post on this, so I did my bit by annoying Ava Chow into looking at it. We can probably hack in some experimental thing if we need for now, but proper support on libwally would smooth the path for Blockstream Green in future, which frankly is a much bigger win than CLN support.

Looking forward to the day when they're not "silent payment addresses" but simply "Bitcoin addresses".


Human-Readable names as a part of it, hopefully :). Then there’s one recipient name and it can pay both SP and BOLT12 instructions.


For more projects like this nostr:note1hypm5jktv8eu66rp4xy7p89xmutvl46d5u3vqgksuc3223ec6z7q7zt4qe


Good deal nostr:note1z8pm77gamztppu6hx9w72ezejn476cwkc9sr9tzxqd9slx0k4q4s6ffyuj


#Bitcoin is Beauty 🧡

#Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

https://m.primal.net/IeZp.jpg


As long as irresponsible relay owners continue to push for censorship, running a non-censored relay is suicidal.

The pro-censorship relays will inevitably attract the attention of regulators and State actors, because they are in fact not relays but publishers, and will be forced into submission and compliance, under threat of prosecution.

Their irresponsible actions and obsession with replicating centralized social media practices "for the good of
the protocol", "for adoption", "for common sense", etc., endangers everybody else and is the single worst point of failure of Nostr and what will effectively kill it, in time.


New #bitcoin    project announced by @SvetskiWrites

@JoinSatlantis https://image.nostr.build/ac1d16bf5c9e19d8bbfac0de35cb3637cc59608fb9d2a0c4cf68b9cbba87b0d4.jpg


I fled censorship, I know that much.

The anti-scientific debacle known as "The Lockdowns" was a two headed beast; one head was called propaganda, and the other head was called  censorship.

Many many many decent, honest and expert opinions that desperately tried to steer the debate on draconian lockdowns into the realm of sense and reason were chewed to pieces by rabid censorship.

It has only gotten worse and more sophisticated since.

There is a digital gulag archipelego forming around us, and the amount of meaningful spaces where you can speak your mind without fear of censorship is evaporating rapidly.
Each of us flee to higher ground each time the waters of censorship rise, eventually inhabiting our individual desert islands, sad and alone, our shouts reaching nobody.


My guess is that 21 months from now the #nostr demographic will be quite different.
nostr:nevent1qqsqgv37x565ggrsnkyuss2sjhw4g77ztdwwp8ltxql7supjtml0v6gpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygz7tlq5xnyj30xuhfhcqxze653cxsgfx2gesr7ndcemwstrj0269spsgqqqqqqs3nynfz


Mempool looking chill after OKx doing some UTXO spring cleaning with

- 2385 transactions
- spending 357092 inputs
- consuming 103 MvB
- 246.65 s/vb avg fee rate
- cost 254.28 BTC in total fees
- (17.6 million USD in fees 🤯)
- recouped 1738.26 BTC

https://coinedition.com/okx-backlog-snarls-bitcoin-transactions-fees-surge/


If you don't care about virtue, you will be ruled by vice. Shotcoiners, for example, don't care.


The properties of money are a head-fake, designed to distract you from the more important aspect, which is how it is created.

https://m.primal.net/IeHd.png


NOSTR The future of #bitcoin    payments by @CierrePorbin

Bulgaria conf with @Plamen__Andonov

https://image.nostr.build/d1e01825a5b328c14e48a157314c469f9817b8f149ac5c8e3dfbf0ce49273082.jpg


Sitting next to ODELL. I’m new to Nostr and fighting for freedom.


the future is ours 🫡


"publisher censoring" is irrelevant when there are infinite publishers available all connected via the same network. You can't be "censored" on Nostr, but a relay is well within its rights to block you (including after user suggestions. "reports", as it were)

If you're on a "single publisher" network (like Twitter):
1. You're asking for it.
2. They own your content, not you, so it's not censoring. It's their property to do what they want with.

If you want to truly be censorship-immune, you must be fully sovereign in your compute and your network.


My latest song answers the question, "What is bitcoin?"

"La Bitcoin Song"

https://supertestnet.github.io/songs/la%20bitcoin%20song.mp3


Latest PR for #blossom
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom/pull/13
This defines the the k:10063 event and how clients can use it to repair broken URLs

If your a nostr client dev id like to get your feedback on this one, since its something that needs to be implemented on the client side


"Bitcoin is the culmination of 30 years of attempts at building digital money for the internet." —Matt Corallo


#bitcoin price on June 8th https://video.nostr.build/d54106a5857e7b5f51518e14056a54fbad8bf175577cc99db96c051e0b64e803.mp4


GM
Reporting is censoring. It's surprising to see some of you who fled to #nostr to avoid censorship now endorsing it.


#WasabiWallet release v2.0.8.1 Soteria is out https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.0.8.1

Highlights:

💸 Set maximum coinjoin mining fee rate
🔒 Set maximum coinjoin coordination service fee
👀 Verify coinjoin mining fee matches requested rate

With new independent Wasabi coordinators appearing every day, we are adding extra level of control to users.


Introducing Ark V2: a liquidity-efficient Ark design.
https://brqgoo.medium.com/introducing-ark-v2-2e7ab378e87b


I listened to the What Bitcoin Did Saylor podcast, and I really want to respond, though that may be unwise. But I want thoughtful, fearless content in my feed, so I should start making some, right?

Firstly, while analogies can provide useful guide rails for understanding, listening to people *arguing* using analogies makes you stupider. Debate the thing itself, not the words about the thing: it hurts my head to even think about doing this, so I won't.

Let's set my priors first: I assume we're talking about technically solid, well-vetted, backward compatible protocol changes: this is the minimum bar.

I don't wholesale agree with Saylor's "don't threaten anyone's investment" hard limit. This has happened multiple times in the past, from the dust limit breaking SatoshiDice, enabling Lightning threatening miner fees (real or not), and segwit breaking stealth ASICBoost. These interests can, and will, stand up for themselves and will compete against other benefits of changes.

To be explicit: I consider any protocol change which makes block space usage more efficient to be a win!

Obviously Saylor is invested in Bitcoin the asset, and can afford to do all his business onchain in any conceivable scenario. His projection of a Bitcoin world in which there are 100,000 companies and governments who use Bitcoin as the base layer is interesting:
1. This does not need "smart contracts", just signatures. By this model, Bitcoin Script was a mistake.
2. It can work if Bitcoin does not scale and is incredibly expensive to spend and hold. By this model, the consumer hardware wallet industry is a dead-end and needs to pivot to something else (nostr keys, ecash?)
3. You could do this with gold, today? Bitcoin here is simply an incremental, not fundamental, improvement. I think this is suggestive, though: that such a network would not be long-term stable, and very much subject to capture.
4. In this view, Saylor is simply a gold bug with first mover advantage, shilling his bags. That's fine, but it's important to understand people's motivations.
5. This vision does not excite me. I wouldn't have left Linux development to work on making B2B commerce more efficient. I wouldn't get up at 5:30am for spec calls, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working this cheap.

I believe we can make people's UTXOs more powerful, and thus feel a moral responsibility to do so. This gives them more control over their own money, and allows more people to share that control. I assume that more people will do good things than stupid things, because assuming the other way implies that someone should be able to stop them, and that's usually worse.

I believe the result will be a more stable, thus useful, Bitcoin network. I am aware that this will certainly benefit people with very different motivations than me (Saylor).

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the length!


keep stacking Sats Anon!

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

https://m.primal.net/IdCA.jpg


Hot take 🚨
Maybe in the end fiatjaf doxxed himself due to the weak opsec 😏


‼
Update your Core!

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/ https://image.nostr.build/91e7862e061b46629da87eb3a98ce7e294604cea70625b5ccfe0d80a41eb6dc1.jpg


#bitcoin rabbit hole

https://video.nostr.build/7005a3e4446aa19bdac1764691ce339b8de2d62b90633b3b80166f1f4f3945a3.mp4


So, I paid that shit. Guilty as hell 😂 Rip my USA driving record 🫡 https://image.nostr.build/921529c056f155fa429b8d71f87b02d445f99cbe40f5da98e43a86102d9304e5.jpg


Everything trends to zero against Bitcoin, except Bitcoin friendships 😉


Never


⬇✍ nostr:note1as6pn00pla2vcujsr327p8kdpdau9uuv6xlkp9ym0mlf39gdrr7sgw7v9v


Keet is going open source when they come out of beta, supposedly.


Fedi, Keet and Fountain are closed source, proprietary apps popular in the wider bitcoin ecosystem.

I personally feel uncomfortable installing them.

Can closed source apps be considered freedom tech?


No. nostr:note1as6pn00pla2vcujsr327p8kdpdau9uuv6xlkp9ym0mlf39gdrr7sgw7v9v


As Bitcoin price increases, so does envy about our situation.

I talked to @JohnathanBi about how to deal with it looking at envy through the lens of philosophy.

https://youtu.be/-5Aqo-inaMc


Rumour has it #OKX is pamping the fees with consolidation transactions, cleary its urgent if you're willing to pay 300+ sats per vbyte, wonder what's going on in CEX land that 1.377 BTC in fees is the rational thing to do

https://m.primal.net/IcIj.jpg


500k and counting, wonder when people will rally around Bitcoin like this, apes clearly need a better way to show their distrust and distaste for the status quo, coz meme stocks is not it

nostr:note1t2jjkkmtd6npk9hvs9dlkd4zazzhys4rk5y3pp9fdwav5d4tjfqsuvwsj4


Learn how to build a better opsec!


Am I crazy or is the Coldcard actually easy to use? You can plug in via USB and I know it may LOOK intimidating, but I actually find its use the easiest and cleanest to actually use of any hardware wallet I’ve tried. Ledger and Trezor(I know they have a Bitcoin only firmware, but let’s assume a noob can’t or won’t do that) try to throw shitcoins and crazy crap in your face and it confuses the fuck out of me. Whereas Coldcard has clear plain English explanations on the screen such as, “consolidation to your own wallet.“ That extra effort to prevent mistakes is extremely useful and helpful at any skill level.


We’re all Fiatjaf. Have a good weekend #bitcoin #nostr


Users should keep a local copy of their public notes.

For example, by paying 5 sats, a relay would commit to storing it for one year. If after one year, the user deems the note to be very valuable, they can resend it, essentially renewing it. Notes that the user considers not valuable do not need to be resent. nostr:note1sz3dl303ttzhlef8fuyhsyhjh8e288ghzsjhsd9ldq55g7qqnjwq7zghft


#nostr onboarding is still hard.


Behind every great Bitcoiner is a woman who worked and paid for him to stay home and look into Magic Internet Money in between gaming sessions.

Eh nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs!


They want pumped bags in order to retire. I want circular economies in order to be sovereign. We're not the same


This ⬇ nostr:note172vdyj2lgczvr9e2f9m4qxgn3xc0ru2vh32wmknkps0n56t5f23qtfhjcu


True


Open protocols should survive without the founder


Fascist free and open source protocol developers and advocates.


"Politicians have the incentive of just giving away the Treasury and entering huge amounts of debt, and that doesn't just destroy the structure of the government it destroys society."
- Nayib Bukele
https://m.primal.net/IaSj.mov


in other news  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 just merged LNURL-verify :)

ty based king

https://github.com/lnurl/luds/pull/264#event-13071772195


Forget about Business insider fake story about Fiatjaf...
Here is the real story

https://www.bugle.news/fiatjafs-adventures-escaping-to-el-salvador/


Business Insider only exists to promote the woke leftist communist Silly Valley Agenda.

If you want to have any other view, they will write a hit piece on you.

They don't want #Nostr to win. But the fact that we're winning says it  all, they won't want Jack to support us.

These guys don't want bitcoin, they want ethereum and solana because they can control it from the inside.

They don't want small self sovereign business owners, they want you working for big corporations so that they can enslave you and your values.

These VCs only want to support social media ethereum projects and do a pump and dump with 100M series A to show their mighty marketing muscle might.

But you, you pleb, you must resist this, this VC psychopathic twisted, word inversion of society that pretends to be communist but actually concentrates and takes power away from the rest.

 "Leftism is a disease."  This is Truth.


Few.
https://m.primal.net/IbEz.jpg


Fiatjaf needs to be full anonymous now . It is for security reasons of him. The State is coming attack any Bitcoiner or developer create tools for privacy and freedom


They Hate #Nostr for being successful. They GFY


Not only doxxed but went ahead and spun a narrative to fit whatever the hell conclusion they desired to meet.

It reads like a political hit piece while dragging a humans privacy through the wringer. Another sacrifice of the agenda.

In essence, it’s another example of Nostr being a threat to the status quo of legacy media and how the only way to be truly anonymous online is to not be online at all.


You know what though, Giovanni is a badass name, so fuck em!

nostr:note1rny78ayklk7dgtxac9qaed5p8a7l94utruk456pyyqjgrx2hmr8snva58f


https://m.primal.net/IbBK.jpg
#memes


We are open sourcing our WMTUI tool:

Whatsminer Text UI was designed as an alternative to WhatsminerTool to be used on the terminal of the local server of mining sites.

You can:

•View miners on a set ip range
•Switch between saved ip ranges
•Send command to one or many

https://github.com/GridlessCompute/WMTUI


Journalist that doxx someone isn’t journalist nostr:note1rny78ayklk7dgtxac9qaed5p8a7l94utruk456pyyqjgrx2hmr8snva58f


Wow. They doxxed nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6. Hey Business Insider and Katherine Long. You can go fuck yourself.


Fuck Business Insider and fuck Katherine Long. nostr:note1rny78ayklk7dgtxac9qaed5p8a7l94utruk456pyyqjgrx2hmr8snva58f


Elon on Buisness Insider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXKZB8RPUIk&pp=ygUbZWxvbiBtdXNrIGJ1c2luZXNzIGluc2lkZXIg


HODLing Bitcoin is easy mode.

Profitably growing a business in bitcoin terms is hard mode.


I'd like to see Bitcoiners buy profitable businesses and provide value to the communities they're in.


Working on #WasabiWallet v3.0


So interesting! German savings culture is very similar to Koreans‘. I remember getting a „Sparbuch“ a little savings booklet from the Berlin Postbank when I was little. The account was in Deutsch Mark (before the Euro) and it gave me 4% interest. I learned about compounding at a very young age.

No wonder so much money is held in cash in German bank accounts today. That‘s what we were taught to do when we were little. Btw 70% of deposits in Germany today are held in small regional community banks and credit unions. This is also why I‘m so excited about Fedimint. The model fits our culture very well. nostr:note1t7tgm392q0g7zazd8htel4gryg6d3venk8j6ez4l9nfe90s0mdcqx8wtzz


I come bearing gifts.

Introducing DotNut - a C# library implementing the Cashu protocol

https://github.com/Kukks/DotNut

The best part about this is the naming opportunities honestly. 😂


BOUNTY ANNOUNCEMENT

We're announcing two new bounties for the ZEUS wallet today:

1) Core Lightning: CLNRest API

Payout: 5,250,000 sats (0.0525 BTC)

https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/blob/master/docs/Bounties.md#core-lightning-clnrest-api

2) SATSCARD support

Payout: 5,000,000 sats (0.05 BTC)

https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/blob/master/docs/Bounties.md#satscard-support

If you'd like to contribute sats, or take a stab and completing either bounty, please reach out to us to us.

Thank you. https://image.nostr.build/cd8821b5e51563802e42b71c6907d9c103833c5bad1e61f13dee869cc5ee7ed3.jpg


#bitcoin price on June 6th https://video.nostr.build/cd9411e3637be5b89f28b4350f6f7573d2ad6fbe5325266662a830dcf4271bc2.mp4


From the perspective of how long notes are stored on relays, it could be said that Keychat primarily uses Nostr as a communication protocol, while Damus primarily uses Nostr as a storage protocol. nostr:note1fypydwgve83pqkx9f7npavkttslje5jpkhga0rtxeqfu3uxwdrxsehq0gh


OP_CAT is active via Signet, but I think not exist any chance of this pass as next soft fork for Bitcoin. I was searching about OpCodes and until on the Bitcoin Wiki, script part, they put this op as disabled. #bitcoin nostr:note1yw3l605pag9wjwf4ruf9g3vgup49a78dw320ja2ffzuj8xd49heqxfzsl2


I legitimately can’t tell if the Taproot Wizards people are trying to tank any chance of OP_CAT activation by running around claiming their for-profit company is going to forcibly activate a bitcoin soft-fork or not. https://image.nostr.build/ea501b727543d8d43b9deef73c44976f622e2a43393d83f8589a4a762c00dd7f.jpg


Who will build the roads?

Honestly why do we care? What if no one build any roads and then suddenly we were left with only trails in the woods? Isn't that a much more adventurous and poetic life that would make the world much more interesting?

I thought socialists and statists of all kinds hated cars and trucks. So they should be for an anarchist society with no roads too.


"The genesis behind so many of the whitepapers and the ICOs and all of this stuff is not understanding proof-of-work; not appreciating proof-of-work." —Ryan Gentry


LOL nostr:note1kj9fs3e9dxqsjqdmqy7atljw9gvv07y9hdeq90cy9kmddr3s3w9qdm58qd


If you are programmer you're very likely to find notes from this bot very funny.

So funny that you may be tempted to implement the outbox model at least a little bit in order to read them.

nostr:nevent1qqs2kln497095rxvc5ecwl5rmf23kv2z6p067x5dk2ywtheu4amdacsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30c9y8lh

The sad thing is that the bot has published hundreds of notes and keeps publishing a lot of them in real-time, but because someone has broadcasted like 6 of them to our big relay overlords, now people will read just these 6 and not realize their client is broken and Nostr is (still) currently mostly centralized and not censorship-resistant.

The full feed is available at https://nostrrr.com/p/nprofile1qqswgeqapmkhr5kscrmge56s34g0ekce2jkpendzd8wmk7ncjlpzv9qprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuam9wd6x2unwvf6xxtnrdaksknl65g if you want to check it out.


Joinstr electrum plugin demo created by  nostr:npub1xw0g0f9dtve2075gc6jk5ed9808ma2zet2rttkrjqx3ekpqgc2wqrfy3xc with 2 instances (peers)

- Create pool
- Join pool
- Register input

It can't get easier than this to coinjoin 🦃

https://m.primal.net/IakF.mp4


Not your keys,  not your sats https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-us-law-block-digital-assets #bitcoin


From 06-05 22:05 UTC to 06-06 10:05 UTC (12 hours )

1. https://btcpay.kruw.io/plugins/wabisabi-coordinator/
6 rounds -> 373 inputs, 16.68140473 BTC
Average: 46 s/vb, 3.7 AnonSet/Output

2. https://mega.cash/plugins/wabisabi-coordinator/
No successful rounds recorded in the interval
Best attempt gathered 6 inputs out of 10 required.

3. https://kravens.duckdns.org:23001/plugins/wabisabi-coordinator/
No successful rounds recorded in the interval
No inputs tried to register to this coordinator.


Incredibly thankful to the HRF crew, nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu , nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td , nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk , nostr:npub1wlkfvm7dvnusz9fv44wuwucu0jp3lc3wqt36ax0lz33hukjga7wq6hqwhy  and everybody else; this was a very enlightening experience that will shape how and what I work on.

Looking forward to next year’s, and building to make a larger impact based on what I’ve learned here.

Thank you.

nostr:note1f8068jnr25w0flcxp0tejvgmh3n5nwv5vp7zeqdz8n0rmeedrvvqww7ale


"nostr is just a twitter clone"

nostr:
https://video.nostr.build/57b19c36e10f0049ff431119c204b983ec51f45ab103cbbbe4203e85b388ad55.mp4


- Bitcoin ETFs already hold more than 1 million BTC.
- There are more than 3.5 million Bitcoins lost.
- There are less than 1.3 million Bitcoins left to mine.
- Central banks are starting to lower interest rates.
- States are drowning in debt, they need to dissolve that debt through perpetual inflation.

I don't know Rick, sell your Bitcoin and save on Fiat 🤡 .


One of the pursuits of a good chat application is to simulate face-to-face conversation in cyberspace, just like in a physical space, where sound waves travel from one person's mouth to another's ear and then dissipate forever. Only these two people know the content of the conversation.


We are quite conservative about the member limit for the shared key group.

Currently, the member list is kept locally and is not uploaded to the relay, which significantly limits the maximum number of group members. https://image.nostr.build/df1b73937bb1f7fb09d106ebb928b75cd5f3efe4c6a7787d38fefd8742745585.jpg  nostr:note108utxkh59shwu4gueffy2pk24u4ktqcg3reczvd6rpe8luupu0ksmp6tvw


Announcing the OpenCash Association – a non-profit for supporting developers and projects building on the Cashu protocol.

We believe that the future of Bitcoin ecash infrastructure should be free and open-source and accessible to everyone.

opencash.dev

https://image.nostr.build/246d509df15c6b647c3ad5edaf4661e6664f7f995d8360e21ef613f363d003a1.jpg


#Bitcoin god candle is coming!

#Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

https://m.primal.net/IZyq.jpg


Once again leaving Oslo Freedom Forum feeling incredibly motivated and honored to contribute towards a solution for real people in real need. Heard many harrowing stories that remind me just how privileged most westerners are.

Keep building people, you ARE making a difference. 🧡


SO MUCH WORK TO DO.

WE’LL DO IT.

STEP BY STEP. LINE BY LINE.


If there's one thing about Nostr that hasn't changed over the last 18 months is that every week my mind is blown at least once, after seeing the work that incredible humans are building for all of us.


BTCPay Server 1.13.2 is out! 🎉🎉🎉

🆕BoltCard plugin ⚡ - Create, top-up and check boltcard balance of all from your BTCPay! (A single point of sale device can now not only accept, but also issue and top up BoltCards. BTCPay is now becoming end-to-end solution for #bitcoin economies.
🧑💼 Refund reports
🪲Bug fixes
And a lot of other improvements.

This release sets a great foundation for the 2.0.0 and is only a small glimpse into what's coming next!

Onwards🚀

https://m.primal.net/IZmL.jpg


Another normal day #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1ac5c98ff2a82425f9cb6572ce3666aeb7d27c3115c4d83874bee64aeac2e018.jpg


working to get these amazing human rights activists onto nostr https://m.primal.net/IZkb.jpg


👀
nostr:nevent1qqsfr897pfv6jlp8wat2mctzxe8jm9h8dycka70578lpcqycxr6urdqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyzprg8ug9dh2hnft5lc7ly92m9su7p6279deaaz2p8ua928ml0n2yqcyqqqqqqg60zgsp


If you can't read notes from nostr:nprofile1qqswgeqapmkhr5kscrmge56s34g0ekce2jkpendzd8wmk7ncjlpzv9qprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuam9wd6x2unwvf6xxtnrdaksknl65g that means Nostr has failed.


Really excited about this.  nostr:npub136jg2fnty2z5vwcnh7p4jpckrs3tk0dpueftgs7mznuuaenjpfps6tjnxf hit us up right after our social release and was excited about our new direction. Grabbed drinks for a few hours later that same week and knew we all had the same philosophy and mission.

Being just 3 people for over the last year, it's easy to move very fast and nimble when you never have to question each other or "assign work". Having someone that is forbidden from writing code is going to balance our team out so much too.

Pumped for this new chapter with Mutiny!

nostr:note1w0kmj9uushgzn6hzxy8g6fhg4kkm9qutynm7uyk79xkdmv6qh7gqxuh4fl


One of our first projects just turned 5. https://www.500headlinesaboutbitcoin.com/


#Bitcoin
Wall of Money Incoming
https://m.primal.net/IZfa.mp4


Which is more important for bitcoin?

1) Monetary properties
2) Social consensus


From 06-05 09:32 UTC to 06-05 09:32 UTC ()

1. https://mega.cash/plugins/wabisabi-coordinator/
No successful rounds recorded in the interval
No inputs tried to register to this coordinator.


Gm plebs 😎

#Bitcoin

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Keychat also supports shared-key groups, where all group members share a public-private key pair. When a member sends a group message, they use this shared public-private key pair to send a Nostr Encrypted Direct Message (NIP4) to this shared public-private key pair. To outsiders, it appears as if they are sending messages to themselves. Other group members receive and decrypt the message using the shared key pair.

When a group member is removed by the group admin, the shared key is updated. The group admin notifies the remaining group members of the new group key by sending them a Nostr DM NIP4 message.

This is an end-to-end encrypted group chat, but it lacks both forward secrecy and backward secrecy. In terms of metadata privacy, outsiders can only see that someone is continually sending messages to themselves.

The overall security of a shared-key group is not as robust as that of a pairwise group. It might be better to consider it as a semi-public or public group.

If the shared-key group has many members, most of whom are strangers, we recommend participating in the shared-key group chat with a new ID, rather than using your primary ID.

Additionally, we are exploring sender key groups and Message Layer Security (MLS).

By the way, the security of all encrypted group chats currently does not match the security of one-on-one chats. nostr:note1927pnd00l22umju9xldyjc3xsrhn28tk0rxczn50pygwaft5h8kqcex9y9


Nigeria’s CBDC 🇳🇬

How much can I withdraw? Depends on how much you KYC, bro
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Nothing to see here. Just a spontaneous congregation of three independent Cashu wallets sending around Ecash in perfect harmony.

Protocols >>>>>>>> Apps

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In case you missed it, the Corporate Transparency Act has come into effect in the US. It is a slow-roll attack on financial privacy.

New fantastic piece by  nostr:npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc👇

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https://www.therage.co/corporate-transparency-act-privacy-at-risk/


Kevin is added as a maintainer in joinstr repository 🎉

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"I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building." —Dan Held


Ark Labs launches today, a new company dedicated to building hashtag#bitcoin layer-two solutions based on the new Ark protocol.

Transaction fees and delays caused by congestion on #bitcoin’s mainchain are increasing demand for more scalable payment solutions. Lightning has made significant strides, but UX challenges (like inbound liquidity management) are driving users toward custodial solutions.

New approaches to scaling are needed to supplement the Lightning Network. This is where Ark comes in. Ark, proposed 2023, is a layer two protocol designed to offer speed and scalability without the burdens of liquidity management (for end users, at least!).

Until now, Ark has been a theoretical solution to bitcoin’s scaling issues. But with the launch of Ark Labs, we’re making Ark a reality—we’ve released an open Ark implementation, which you can use to launch your own Ark Service Provider or wallet.

We’ve already started work on the first Ark-based services. If you’d like to be one of the first to try these out at launch, make sure you subscribe to our newsletter on our website
https://arklabs.to

Ark uses a unique model for hashtag#bitcoin transactions—users connect to an Ark Service Provider (ASP) and transact with “virtual” transactions (VTXOs). Unlike Lightning, end users only need a light wallet and all on-chain liquidity management is handled by their ASP.

Importantly, an Ark VTXO can be redeemed on the hashtag#bitcoin mainchain at any time, even if the ASP is offline. This ensures that users have true self-custody of their Ark funds. Onboarding is easier too—users don’t need any bitcoin to open a channel and receive their first payment.

All that said, we need to emphasize that Ark is not a replacement for Lightning! Lightning is an essential piece of the scaling puzzle. It’s especially suited to enterprise settlements (e.g., exchanges, federations, and ASPs)—Ark simply fills in its gaps for consumer payments.

Ark’s finally here and we’re excited to pioneer new possibilities with #bitcoin. Whether you're looking to integrate Ark into your app, shape the protocol’s development, or make some of the first Ark payments, get in touch!

Full announcement
https://blog.arklabs.to/introducing-ark-labs-a-new-venture-to-bring-seamless-and-scalable-payments-to-bitcoin-811388c0001b


Any python wizards out there?  nostr:npub1v6qjdzkwgaydgxjvlnq7vsqxlwf4h0p4j7pt8ktprajd28r82tvs54nzyr says this is blocking mainnet joinstr. Joinstr is a project to do coinjoins over nostr. This is the 'other stuff' we keep hearing about.

https://gitlab.com/1440000bytes/joinstr/-/issues/7


People have no idea how insane things are going to get on nostr. ✨


Ark looks nice to some because they see the high liquidity burdens and unscalability as a way to build a monopoly around a protocol.

If there was ever a question an LSP might have regulatory concerns, wait till you hear about ASP. It was originally pitched to me as a coinjoin protocol around a centralized coordinator.


#Bitcoin is not controlled by any group of devs. If that was the case it would’ve easily been captured a decade ago. You cannot simultaneously believe Bitcoin is decentralized freedom money and that 5 core devs control it. These are in diametric opposition. Bitcoin is the product of consensus of all of its participants.
With LLMs (I use nostr:npub17304velluajf6lylvjynpj2f3ndg396w063gj2gef5qk0nwtcyjqfj9yky ) even non coders can easily understand and audit changes in code between versions in layman’s terms.


Announcing Super Testnet Workshops! A series of monthly workshops (first one on June 25) where you can learn bitcoin programming. We start this month with a workshop on Bitcoin Script. Buy a ticket for only $20 or purchase a prerecorded version for only $5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRi9_4bgkek


Blast from to the past
a Wasabi 1.0 coinjoin from 2018

https://mempool.space/tx/f250e997dc1a2d68861e03689d1709973e1964a62f929ba5727fe8607dafb676


🔀 FreeSabi  🔀

This account will publish liquidity status of free WabiSabi coordinators advertised on Nostr.
You can connect to those coordinators by entering their advertised URI in Wallet Wasabi under Settings -> Bitcoin -> Coordinator URI
Remember to download Wasabi only from official sources: https://wasabiwallet.io/ or https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases

To run your own coordinator and help bitcoiners regain their privacy, visit https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Wabisabi/.
Bootstrapping a coordinator directly from Wasabi Wallet will be improved as the software is undergoing a transition towards FOSS.

Disclaimer: This account will list all free coordinators without any distinction nor control.
A mention isn't an endorsement. It is the responsibility of the coordinators and their users to ensure that they are compliant with AML laws applying in their jurisdiction.


Thank nostr:npub1u57ezu7n7kyxpwac2a2pf2stu9lswzs32gew2j9l5fdue642avcqdpl3fp for the new german translations ♥

With the latest release, we added german, italian, and chinese!

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Today we’re launching Ark Labs, a new company dedicated to building solutions for the Ark protocol, a new #bitcoin layer two that makes bitcoin payments at scale simpler and with no sacrifices to self-custody.

https://blog.arklabs.to/introducing-ark-labs-a-new-venture-to-bring-seamless-and-scalable-payments-to-bitcoin-811388c0001b


When explaining Nostr to a friend, we start with the public key and gradually rebuild Nostr step-by-step.

**Public Key**

Having a public/private key pair gives you a completely controllable ID, which represents you in the online world.

If you want to publish a public note, you can use your private key to digitally sign the note, proving to readers that it was indeed written by you.

**Relays**

Next, you'll consider how to spread your public notes to others. This requires setting up relay servers, either operated by yourself or others. Then, you send your public notes to multiple relays. This is akin to having a personal website on various relays. Your readers can see your personal webpage on the relay by knowing your public key.

**Follow**

However, asking others to actively open your personal website to see notes might be too demanding. Therefore, it's essential to consider adding a follow mechanism. The client continuously queries the relay to see if any new notes have been posted by the public keys you follow. This creates a continuously updating timeline. nostr:note12fgl8h8jmtjy7rnstm7zyzsl0mfej7663emksc4pygdsv75xqj2swtpuh9


"By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world." —Hugo Nguyen


BitcoinSeoul 2024 Interviews SLP581
I caught up with some of the speakers at Bitcoin Seoul, including  nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42  nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak  nostr:npub1kp7jzme0qs3wcqjjmkq6v5fm359sclhc22glhadgtmerlr0h37nsn8487l Calvin Kim Gloria Zhao and Laolu (roasbeef)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiDFXVkPmgY


Who will build the roads?

Honestly why do we care? What if no one build any roads and then suddenly we were left with only trails in the woods? Isn't that a much more adventurous and poetic life that would make the world much more interesting?

I thought socialists and statists of all kinds hated cars and trucks. So they should be for an anarchist society with no roads too.


Remember: 1 BTC = 1 BTC

Bitcoin doesn't need MiCa rules or any other thing

#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/c2811596fcf57d1ead9b666d5c64fdd129c56b3a29fb4dee504152e91264c33a.jpg


The current mechanism by which Nostr relays respond to Nostr client requests is designed for microblog applications. For example, a client can request a relay to send all notes it has received in the past hour. This is also known as Damus's Universe, where one can see all notes posted by everyone, not limited to those they follow.

Keychat's relay requires the client to specify which receiving addresses it wants to retrieve messages for. Additionally, Keychat continuously updates the receiving addresses, which are known only to the sender and receiver of the message. Combined, these two designs prevent others from accessing encrypted messages from the relay. This achieves better metadata privacy.


> So far, all attempts to ban bitcoin mining have been referred to the practices of authoritarian/dictatorial countries such as #China. But in the case of #Norway, this country is considered one were bitcoiners teach human rights defenders about freedom technology routinely.
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There's a tremendous amount of capital that Bitcoiners have. We will literally be building the future.


The Oslo Freedom Forum is an incredible event.


This is the way. My time also is coming soon. #NostrOnly nostr:note16hywufekdywz70jx333wf3udq00l8zkkdk7wpkpdu6wcf6x6fd6sa8kcnl


#NostrOnly
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I thought the new Wasabi release was just a coordination switching feature. It's way better than that.

Wasabi coordinator discovery based on nostr. Talk about unstoppable coordination.

Well done  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and  nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad

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Wait until he learns about joinstr that does more than just discovery using nostr

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If you’re not validating your own transactions, someone else is doing it for you and can use that information against you. nostr:note1z0lp2lzr3dq0q0vj0sm48qj3lrnfkh95qxv40rczrlpme6v9aynqxr94fj


Free issue for the first Monday of the month!

Shrinking Control, NK Remote Workers, Crippled Miners, Clams, Ross Pardon and much more!

#BITCOIN Tech Talk #399

https://open.substack.com/pub/jimmysong/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-399


We’re presenting at Bitcoin Jawn this evening.

Hope to see you there!


👀 #nostrdesign
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We don't want users to have only one ID. For example, when joining a group chat with mostly strangers, we recommend using a new ID. https://image.nostr.build/80fb9d8a5fc43ba86f6c288017b6a09ea1b25d71f7dad58bdda0950b44a7484b.jpg  nostr:note1kgha0g0rt6ywkcx5xzj6s788ycjpwygre7q92szaek5e8g22p85qaatrwc


People seriously rely on the public digital square, Twitter, and it WILL get more censoring, partisan and manipulative.

Because they don’t know of a better way, these people are fighting against someone with god-mode.

We must build faster, not just code, not just product, education, outreach and understanding.

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Bitcoin and State doesn’t mix. #bitcoin


Made it to Oslo!

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A lot of bitcoiners know nothing about nostr. Quite amazing, really.


“IT SEEMS TO BE A LAW OF NATURE, INFLEXIBLE AND INEXORABLE, THAT THOSE WHO WILL NOT RISK CANNOT WIN.”

- JOHN PAUL JONES

GOOD MORNING.


https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi is pretty good. I wonder if it's a scam and I'm being duped.

"our development efforts are centered around improving search algorithms, expanding our own index, reducing latency, and ensuring that our platform remains free of low-quality and LLM-generated content"


We're Different ⚡

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

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i had never seen DVMs in the wild until i tried Amethyst

my understanding is DVMs are “money in, data out”

who is paying the money in for this request? also, it seems to be stuck in the “requesting job…” state

did i do something wrong? nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
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Hello world!


No, it's ready for prime time; I'm working right now on replacing nostr.build with Blossom endpoints-only.

It will default to Primal's blossom server but it will be easily configurable.

In fact, this very screenshot was uploaded from Highlighter to the Satellite blossom instance, and if it were to go down, it would automagically heal.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/eb65cf0b0b6a1ea90180a690661b62acd5429a7419d028bf29ab4174c080cd1d.png


The government wouldn't be pushing it so hard if it hadn't been backdoored for 30 years

No wonder it's got such a huge marketing budget, central influencer agency working overtime on it

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Reading through what nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg  is doing with Harbor. Much respect and gratitude for their first principles commitment, and innovation. They’re building game changing, freedom preserving software for all of us. nostr:note1h945du7h92y6jxa6w78658zxm6ts87m706y499fkcfew6wj6t72sg4u0j4


PSA on one of my favorite bitcoin companies (until today unfortunately).

Bitrefill has sold me prepaid mastercards from a company that appears to be a scam. Unfortunately bitrefill is not answering my DMs and customer support has been handwaving arguments all day. I'm honestly somewhere between angry, sad and disappointed and really at a lost for words rn, so I hope this helps me get my money back.

I bought several of these prepaid Mastercards on Bitrefill's site, advertised as ‚accepted anywhere Mastercard is accepted‘. Except they’re not accepted ‚anywhere Mastercard is accepted‘ – in fact, they are accepted nowhere returning 'this card is not recognized'.

So now my money is stuck, and Bitrefill says it can’t give it back because it sold me a valid giftcard coupon for a product that does not seem to be legitimate.

I’m a huge fan of bitrefill and have been using their services for years, so I’m extremely surprised that they would a) offer such a product in the first place and b) respond (or rather not respond) the way they did when being confronted with the problem.

It seems that bitrefill has done zero due diligence on this product and simply copy/pasted their marketing claims to their site. I have always trusted bitrefill to offer high quality products so I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it would be great if they could give me my money back after a series of very unsuccessful customer support contact with their team.

I have spent all day going through several mind bending headaches in attempts to retrieve my money which seems to be close to impossible looking at trust pilot reviews. As I’ve also shared with bitrefill's customer support agent, I’m not the only person who has had this experience with this card issuer, after which the bitrefill agent apparently decided to just stop responding.

My DMs are open to resolve this issue (and I hope bitrefill will take this product off of their site immediately).

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This is a very cool developer tool.

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how much of a scam are startup's equity options?


aisan cultures do orders of 10 in groups of four instead of three.

so western is thousand, million, billion and so on, which are 10^3

east Asian is by 10^4, so the word for 10,000 is mahn in Korean, and 100,000 is 10 mahn and so on.

maybe the reason we have 100,000,000 sartoshis per BTC is because Satoshi was east Asian. 10^8 is much more natural in those cultures.


Paying lightning invoices through Nostr instead of http. 🤯 Good bye DNS.
https://vimeo.com/950881613


ZEUS v0.9.0-alpha6 is now rolling out to community sponsors!

This build includes:

- LND v0.18.0-beta
- Neutrino: high latency environment optimizations
- BOLT 12 offers enhancements + fixes
- Embedded node: display rescan status when recovering wallet
- LNURL-channel: default to unannounced
- Add feedback to manual SCB process
- Bug fixes

Other v0.9.0 features:

- New LSP service: Purchase channels in advance (LSPS1)
- Watch-only account import (xpub)
- Hardware wallet / signing device support
- Batch channel opens + txs
- Close channels to external addresses
- BOLT 12 offers + LN addresses (c-lightning-REST only)
- New camera
- Layout + navigation improvements

More features will be released throughout the closed alpha program.

Want to join the test group? SUPPORT ZEUS and become a community sponsor here: https://zeusln.com/about

Thank you. https://image.nostr.build/6ca7fc992216c73c22917bac9a8e83d8d89574b3afc8ee483fc1c9b8d3c5d847.jpg


👀
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Only 5 more days until the Oslo freedom forum financial freedom track!
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Static HTML shall bloom 🌱


👀👀👀

https://npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft.nostr.hu/


A new Era for privacy is coming #bitcoin


Bitcoin Optech newsletter #305 is here:

- describes a proposed light client protocol for silent payments
- summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot
- links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #305 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/

Setor Blagogee posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe a draft specification for a protocol to help lightweight clients receive silent payments (SPs)...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#light-client-protocol-for-silent-payments

Oghenovo Usiwoma posted to Delving Bitcoin about two new proposed descriptors for constructing taproot spend conditions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#raw-taproot-descriptors

Pierre Rochard asks if proposed soft forks that can provide much of the same features at a similar cost should be considered mutually exclusive, or whether it would make sense to activate multiple proposals and let developers use whichever alternative they prefer...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#should-overlapping-soft-fork-proposals-be-considered-mutually-exclusive

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:

- What’s the smallest possible coinbase tx / block size?
- Understanding Script’s number encoding, CScriptNum
- Is there a way to make an address public but hide how many BTC it contains?
- Testing increased feerates in regtest
- Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection?
- Does a P2PKH tx send to the hash of the uncompressed or compressed key?
- What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Oghenovo Usiwoma and Pierre Rochard on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKbgnYgOBGX


DEVS DO NOT DICTATE BITCOIN PROTOCOL CONSENSUS.

USERS ULTIMATELY CHOOSE WHETHER THEY UPDATE THEIR NODES.

THE PROTOCOL IS INCREDIBLY RESISTANT TO CHANGE BY DESIGN.

EMBRACE IT. GOOD MORNING.


NEW TUTORIAL:

 nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg
-onboard in minutes, no lightning channels needed
-send/receive via lightning, onchain, LN addresses
-seed recovery
-fedimint backend explained, plus how to move to full self custody after building a balance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbee0BUquo


If we want ecash to have any hope of working out, we need anonymous mints, but anonymous mints are likely to get stolen. Instead, we need anonymous mints that are operated by one of N well-known and trusted parties. Mint operator(s) should take N public keys known to be from N well-known and trusted persons in the bitcoin space, then create ring sig(s) across those N to reveal that they are one of those N parties, but not which one.

Given many long-timers at one point or another had public donation addresses or some other key that is known to be theirs, this should actually be relatively doable, just don’t put too much money in the mint :)


GM Nostr ☕

#FreeSamourai

P2Prights.org


Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time.

I'll give you the back story...

Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST".

This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company went out of business - KNC - citing "the Chinese having some secret advantage we don't know about" - which turned out to be true precisely for this reason.

It's one of the reasons ASIC manufacture is so centralized today and this is correctly identified by many as being one of the most vulnerable aspects of the entire bitcoin ecosystem.

The ASICBOOST issue came to a head when Bitmain used their influence to block the activation of SEGWIT (essential for Lightning) because it would break their ability to do it - at least covertly. Well, they would still be able to use asicboost, but just in an obvious way that would mean everyone else could do it too. They had patented it so as to try and prevent this because that's the kind of people we're dealing with here but I digress...

When asicboost was independently discovered by Greg Maxwell Bitmain lied and said they weren't in fact using it.

This was after years of bullshitting about segwit, with Bitmain pretending to be in favour of "alternative scaling solutions" or even doing segwit as a hard fork instead which would allow them to continue what they were doing.....

Absolutely nobody believed them thanks to GMax having reverse engineered one of their ASICs and demonstrating what they had built and tried to keep to themselves.

This was a watershed moment in the fork wars where everyone suddenly understood why Bitmain had been making nonsensical arguments against segwit forever. Wanting big/small blocks wasn't a related discussion. Segwit fixed TX malleability and was a no-brainer upgrade and in the end was combined with a block size increase anyway as a compromise.

So we proceeded with segwit anyway, at which point Bitmain switched to overt asicboost which is actually even more powerful, it just requires grinding version bits instead of merkle roots but it's obvious if a miner is doing this.

Now everybody does it so essentially the net effect of it being possible is zero, except your node asking you wtf miners are doing signalling for upgrades your node knows nothing about (upgrade coordination is what version bits are actually supposed to be used for).

Oh well, relatively little harm done. If you're happy to ignore the obvious dishonesty and effort to undermine what's arguably Bitcoin's most important ever upgrade.

Fun extra tidbit: Antbleed - an intentional backdoor with which Bitmain could remotely shutdown any Antminer in the world. They said it was for shutting down stolen ASICs but immediately patched it once it was discovered.

Anyway, this company now accounts for 25-30% of all blocks found, if you naively observe the blockchain.

That's not enough to spook anyone, but unfortunately many smaller pools are in fact just fronts for Bitmain which we know for three reasons:

1. The smaller pools are clearly using blocks constructed by, or for the benefit of, Antpool.

2. They share the same custodian of their newly mined coins (Cobo).

3. They have a lending program to bail out smaller pools who get in over their head due to FPPS.

And the trend is sadly in the wrong direction, given Braiins recently abandoning its old payout model and becoming just a simple proxy for Bitmain as result of switching to FPPS.

[Massive shoutout to @mononautical and @0xB10C for helping uncover how centralized pools have become. Those are their Tweeter handles, idk if they're on Nostr.]

Summary - Bitmain is not just Antpool, it probably accounts for >50% of block templates and manufactures >90% of the mining hardware in the world.

So where am I going with all this?

Amazingly, it's about empty blocks.

What does that have to do with anything?

Well, famously OCEAN has found 3 empty blocks in its short existence, causing many to wrongly make allegations of some sort of issue with the pool itself.

This spurred on endless debate about why pools make empty templates in the first place and the actual reason so many of them get solved.

In short, pools send empty templates then immediately follow up with full templates. So quickly, that the interim period accounts for a tiny minority of the empty blocks that get found on the network, and none of ours.

In all three cases with OCEAN, the miner solved the empty block long after already having a full template to work on -

   - leaving the pool in a position to either throw away a perfectly good (but empty) block or to broadcast it to the network and get miners >90% of the reward of a full block. Obviously the latter makes sense and does zero harm to the network while still adding to the overall PoW necessary for any attacker.

So why would an empty block happen a few seconds after the pool had already sent an updated job for a full block?

Because Antminers suck.

*What we didn't realize was that they intentionally sucked.*

You can send an updated job to an Antminer and watch it continue to work on an old job for over 60 seconds in edge cases.

This was something we assumed was due to design of the ASIC itself, and thus just poor engineering on the part of Bitmain.

But it turns out we were wrong, it's due to Antminer firmware.

We know this because they just released a fix for it.

So Bitmain watched, while people kept mining empty blocks, everyone would wrongly attribute it to pools, while explainers on popular websites like mempool(.)space would offer wrong explanations about it happening due to pools being slow to send proper templates and seemingly no one would understand even the motivation for sending empty templates, let alone the reason they get worked on for so long.

But the fix being something that gets released right after OCEAN starts explaining what's really going on here is beyond reasonable doubt.

They had a fix for it, and have been using that fix for their own mining.

Now they can't get away with it because increasingly people are realizing that Whatsminers and ASICs from other manufacturers aren't finding anything like the amount of empty blocks because they switch jobs far more quickly.

An Antminer has a far greater likelihood of finding an empty block because it spends longer working on old jobs.

We've been out here yelling that the issue is with the ASIC *NOT* the pool.

The fact that Bitmain intentionally crippled the firmware on the Antminers they would sell to the world, while keeping more functional units for their own mining is typical of everything Bitmain.

Sure it can be incompetence and coincidental timing on the fix, but I sincerely doubt it.

The conversation around empty blocks reached the point where people were beginning to realize something was broken with Antminers and then they just happen to release a fix for it right after people finally start catching wind of what's really going on.

__________________

So imagine this -

You sell shovels to gold miners, and as we all know, the people who make money during a gold rush are the people who sell the shovels.

But in this case the shovel seller is digging for gold himself too.

And he has intentionally sold crappy shovels to all of his customers so as give himself an advantage.

Empty blocks kept happening, people kept blaming pools.

OCEAN got attacked over it. We explained the real reason they happen so much, and Bitmain releases a fix right after.

Insane.

This goes further than empty blocks.

It's not just empty templates that take forever to work their way out of an Antminer, it's *all templates* and pools are constantly updating work as new transactions show up.

A super lucrative transaction shows up in your mempool?

All other pools are sending an updated job to hundreds of thousands of Antminers who will ignore it for a while, while Antpool has their miners working on it more quickly.

It's not hard to see the motivation for all this, especially going forward as TX fees become more and more important.

Again, insane.

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If you want to watch @wk057 and I figure this all out in real time, watch the video below which was just intended to be a discussion on why empty blocks happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkyhdxnDrM


We live in a corrupt world. No exist State, politic or any other person, fix this. Only #Bitcoin fix this.


STOPPED SENDING GM NOTES BECAUSE PRIMAL TRENDING HEAVILY WEIGHTS REPLIES AND THERE WERE TOO MANY CONSPIRACIES ABOUT WHY MY NOTES WERE OFTEN AT THE TOP OF TRENDING.


“Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. Just as a bird sings or a butterfly flies, because it is his nature to do so, we also do as we do.”

— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/caf486c97dbf6ed25c01dd26e2123e6c39540164732b397a9a0e31a26160f3fd.jpg


Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/

Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.

Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.

Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.

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Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.

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Harbor Multi-mint: Instead of relying on a single mint with your funds, spread the risk over dozens or more. Harbor manages this for you, showing you a single balance while connecting with mints for you. A mint can go offline with minimal impact on you.

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Harbor Automation: Running as a desktop app unlocks ability to do long running processes in the background. Move money in and out of mints on your preferred schedule to maximize your desired level of privacy. Harbor makes suggestions, but you are in control.

Move money in and out of Harbor using Lightning or on-chain. We love Bitcoin, and we love privacy. We hope Harbor gives everyday people more privacy and peace of mind.


The design supports a tremendous variety of possible transaction types that I designed years ago.  Escrow transactions, bonded contracts, third party arbitration, multi-party signature, etc.  If Bitcoin catches on in a big way, these are things we'll want to explore in the future, but they all had to be designed at the beginning to make sure they would be possible later.


"Bitcoin has come much further and much faster than people expected. There was a saying in the early dotcom era about “internet time,” and bitcoin time seems to be moving even faster." —Adam Back


All altcoins ultimately trade on association with Bitcoin's success.


Joe Grand recovered someone's BTC by utilizing a vulnerability in a old version of a password generator called RoboForm where they used the current time as a seed to the password generation and thus they were able to recreate the passwords generated in the past!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IySpAkThg


Good morning!

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Software engineers should be required to regularly test their app on a network connection throttled to dialup speeds.

[Sent from a single bar 3G connection in the middle of nowhere.]


One of the things I immediately loved about #nostr when I joined was that I was no longer surrounded by people talking about how #Bitcoin COULD BE used, but rather by people ACTUALLY USING Bitcoin.


go-nostr has a libsecp256k1 wrapper now, in case you wanted 3x faster signature verification:
https://github.com/nbd-wtf/go-nostr/tree/d06f61136d67aea758845db5585642852d91ebdb/libsecp256k1

https://cdn.satellite.earth/7382617068f1327ab5bb290004b5015ab283577ec8d077f49b26f31f53ecf13e.png
It probably works but has bugs, I don't know, but the tests look good.

By the way, is anyone using this library at all besides myself?


We are stoked to finally release Chain Swaps today🙌

Chain Swaps let you swap directly between Liquid and the Bitcoin mainchain and lay the foundation for more chain-to-chain pairs in future.

Learn all about it in our blog post 👇
https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/dispatching-chain-swaps


Bitcoin Country, here we come! 🌴

We are thrilled to announce that OCEAN has expanded into El Salvador 🇸🇻.  OCEAN MINING S.A. de C.V. will serve as our global hub of business development as we continue to bring features to market that push the envelope of decentralization in #Bitcoin mining.

Thank you Nayib Bukele, Bitcoin Office SV, and Stacy Herbert for creating the blueprint for Bitcoin adoption and for welcoming us into your country.

https://ocean.sv

https://url-shortener.newsdirect.com/DWho6ywY

https://url-shortener.newsdirect.com/g8jtB8Yg
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Users can mint ecash sats, ecash USD, ecash stamps, and more. Users would exchange Lightning Network sats for ecash sats, ecash USD, ecash stamps, etc.

Users can mint 10 ecash stamps at the mint with 1 LN sat. These ecash stamps are specialized, and the mint does not allow exchanging back from ecash stamps to LN sats.

For users, using ecash stamps rather than a subscription model can offer better privacy.

The mint only commits to users being able to use these ecash stamps to pay for services at any time, such as relay services.

The risk for users is that the relay service might stop before they use up their ecash stamps.

Users can mint 1000 ecash sats at the mint with 1000 LN sats. They can enjoy more private payments with these 1000 ecash sats, and the transaction fees are very low.

The mint earns a fee from these transactions. The mint commits to exchanging ecash sats back to LN sats on a 1:1 basis when users wish to convert their ecash sats balance back to LN sats.

The risk for users is that the mint may not have enough LN sats to fulfill the redemption, or may refuse to redeem.

Users can mint 7 ecash USD at the mint with 10000 LN sats. They can enjoy more private payments with these 7 ecash USD, and the transaction fees are very low; price stability might also be an advantage for some.

The mint earns a fee from these transactions. The mint commits to exchanging the ecash USD balance back to LN sats at the current market rate when users wish to convert.

The risk for users is that the mint may not have enough LN sats to fulfill the redemption, or may refuse to redeem. nostr:note1xuv2l9e40vm2p05lk6prsn45tfmy4v4kgj6lxwewdxuysdr4wcrsrnva37


nice thing about notedeck is that you can leave it open for days on your desktop and let it collect notes. This is where local algos really shine: it can summarize interesting things you’ve missed since you last scrolled. all done locally without needing external providers like dvms or custom relays.

When I come back to notedeck I see that the spot I was last at was 14 hours ago, there are thousands of notes above that. I would love a local algo to highlight new notes I might find interesting in that set.


What if instead of follower counts client displayed a "followed by <names of known people>" section?

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I feel sad for all the people who recommend Bitcoin wallets and Nostr clients to friends and family very enthusiastically over the years only to have these things blow up in their faces every single time.


The term 'stamp' is a metaphor. What is affixed to Keychat messages is not a specialized stamp, but rather generic Bitcoin ecash.

Why does the traditional postal system require stamps? Why not just affix cash or paper money directly onto the envelope? It's likely because the cash could be stolen, and the glue might damage the paper money. nostr:note1g7v8x5dzy45q9jkxhug5h3sykrldl40zvpuyzfgnmsajuntxxcksgdzekc


👀
https://github.com/lez/git-remote-nostr


"Bitcoin is radically changing the world by being unchangeable." —Robert Breedlove


10 year olds are making bank on their side hustles before their 8pm bed time and you're out here shitposting wondering how you're going to make rent

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/fourth-graders-before-school-side-hustle-3d-printing-toys.html


Once you cross the threshold into the #Bitcoin universe, there’s no way back ⚡

#Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

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When I criticize Biden, NPCs assume I’m pro-Trump.

When I criticize Trump, NPCs assume I’m pro-Biden.

The NPC mind cannot fathom that someone can be critical of *both* parties.

There is no red.
There is no blue.
There is the State.
And there is you.


GM

Feeling very bullish, we're going to fight and we're going to win

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-fight-for-bitcoin-carman-and-giorgio


People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.

Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").

Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.

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Testing with a small group of nostriches to start with, but its working so far.  The circle is expanding organically.


I tested a new Era for Nostr! Let’s go guys!  🚀⚡ nostr:note107dqg9kn40wvmjyk5nl8sn3sk0wamzc8wmshpfwtp0f9aalezy9ql08paw


Smart Contracts over bitcoin taproot and nostr, tested and working with first user.  Went without a hitch.  We are at the dawn of a whole new era.  Thanks to  nostr:npub1c8l997847szpt6prwug6usmfl48v7afun9d4zt6f5xexhrdps45sctmg0w for testing!  This scales to billions of people and trillions of devices.  It changes everything.

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💯 nostr:note1m4u6c39v5nyvksa80mmjm27x2df7yf4swj8pn767nkgdgadk0q2shh22f8


GM Nostr ☕

Passport firmware version 2.3.1 is now available. It has support for Theya multisig, Coinbits exchange and my favorite, nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5.

Yes, you can now open and close Lightning channels to/from Passport. Love to see it 🧡⚡

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"Bitcoin fixes you." —Pierre Rochard


I'm happy to announce that Shipyard is now roaming the nostr relays as a DVM.

Ok, what the hell does that even mean?

Ok, so DVMs, or Data Vending Machines, are just programs that take requests over nostr to deliver... well, data.

And what is Shipyard?

Shipyard, as it's slogan "A Quiet Place for Loud Ideas" implies, is a write-only Nostr client. One of the instrumental features that Shipyard.pub implemented was the ability to SCHEDULE posts and reposts. No more fighting to publish your notes to defeat the evil Timezone Cabal; you can write your note when you see fit, and then schedule so it's published whenever it makes most sense to you.

Groundbreaking stuff, I know.

Ok, so now, Shipyard's scheduling superpowers can be accessed as a DVM:

meaning that any Nostr client can now easily add scheduling capabilities without much fuss!

For example, this long-form post was actually written a day before it was published, and the publishing was handled by the Shipyard DVM.

How does it work?

Client developers can use NIP-89 to find kind:5905 DVMs, right now only Shipyard, and when a person wants to schedule a post they simply send the post via an encrypted DVM request to Shipyard. That's it, at the time the event's created_at timestamp reaches the event will be published to the specified relays!

What can it look like? Up to clients developers to decide; here's my take:

https://cdn.satellite.earth/e05f366b61b9b9b68f716eb297563e5dbbae6b7f7f73fdd5177a389bd2de36fb.mp4


The vast majority of Bitcoiners are not programmers, but they understand the various macro-level designs of Bitcoin. Therefore, we continuously write notes here to help more people understand how a good chat application should be designed. Understanding what constitutes good chat app design does not require you to be a programmer.

This is also a form of "don't trust, verify."

Good money is important, and good communication is also important. nostr:note1fvh6lxjhq07wlxtlrz89n4fh5tlentyvyk5sapknza9u73ylt4hqjg75hv


GM

ZEUS v0.9.0-alpha5 is now rolling out to community sponsors!

This build includes:

- Purchase channels in advance
 - Supports all self-custodial backends
 - Supports multiple LSPs
 - LSPS1 spec

- Experimental BOLT 12 addresses
 - Powered by Twelve.cash
 - c-lightning-REST only

- BOLT 12 Offers (Pay codes)
 - c-lightning-REST only

- New camera
 - Significant performance gains

- Radioactive theme
- Layout changes
- New transition animations

- Bug fixes
 - LNC crash handling
 - LNbits LNURLp memo fix
 - Displays of closed channels details on embedded node backends

Other v0.9.0 features:

- Watch-only account import (xpub)
- Hardware wallet / signing device support (Coldcard Q, Seedsigner, Passport Foundation etc)
- Batch channel opens
- Batch on-chain txs
- Close channels to external addresses
- Improved payment path view

More features will be released throughout the closed alpha program.

Want to join the test group? SUPPORT ZEUS and become a community sponsor here: https://zeusln.com/about

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Announcing support for Bitcoin Wallet Descriptors! We believe that descriptors are an important stepping stone toward increasing interoperability and reducing backup fragmentation across the wallet ecosystem.
https://blog.casa.io/introducing-wallet-descriptors/


Healthcare company Semler Scientific buys 581 #Bitcoin worth $40 million.

The company has also adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset.

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Primal iOS build 1.7.21 is now live. Here’s what we have for you:

- Faster rendering
- Wide feed layout
- Top zaps in feeds
- Notifications facelift
- Improved app chrome
- Improved connectivity
- Wallet fixes & improvements

Let us know how you like the new features and what you would like to see next in Primal.

Enjoy! 🤙💜

https://primal.net/downloads


Openness is nostr’s killer feature. We still need to improve the UX around these scenarios, but once we do, and the ecosystem grows, it will be glorious. ✨

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Bitcoin is more than just a digital currency; it's a movement towards a more open, transparent, and equitable financial system. Whether you're looking to invest, transact, or simply learn, there's never been a better time to get started with Bitcoin.

Bisq 2 is open-source software featuring a trading protocol called Bisq Easy, designed to help newcomers easily navigate the process of buying their first Bitcoin.
Welcome aboard!

Get started with Bisq 2 here https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq2/releases/tag/v2.0.4

#dex #decentralized #bitcoin #btc #bisq2 #p2p #stacksats #nokyc
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Release Date: May 27, 1994

https://chaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/05-27-94-World_s-first-electronic-cash-payment-over-computer-networks.pdf https://image.nostr.build/065d85910646d0a13b94169a9d5ab449e7029263790e8cacc979ab4cdd057315.jpg


Stack Duo NEW RELEASE

Primarily it adds:
- Built-in Tor (BTC only, XMR coming in a couple weeks)
- Frost
- Taproot Support

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FROST is a brand new multisig tech that allows editing of signer sets without having to make a brand new wallet and send from the old to the new.

HRF   nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu
 offered a bounty to the first wallet to implement it.


According to this article, the take home rate for #YouTubers in the most lucrative niche (finance) is between $8.00 and $20 per 1000 views, meaning 5 million - 8.5 million views would net you 1 BTC, that's before you pay your income taxes

So no, your favourite YouTuber does not have 1 #Bitcoin, unless they shilled you down the BlockFi, Celsius, FTX, BiByt link funnel and managed to withdraw their funds in time

https://isthischannelmonetized.com/youtube-cpm/#you-tube-rpm-and-cpm-rates-by-category


Lightning Network has product-market fit as the open payment protocol


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Silent Payments is a new approach to improving privacy and useability of Bitcoin. Imagine not needing to manually create new addresses? Josie and Ruben Somsen join me to discuss how it's possible.

Silent Payments overview
Contrast with other techniques such as BIP47
Light client support
Stopping address re-use
Base layer privacy discussion

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/579/


It seems to me that a lot of people don't seem to understand the significance of Michael Saylor's statements re Bitcoin Core funding, so I've unpacked my Saylor folder tracking his ties to US intelligence and statements shedding light on what the 'Gigachad' appears to understand by protecting the network's stability:

„If Bitcoin diverted all of their energy to make itself private and became known as a network of complete and utter privacy, it probably is counter productive to its own interests, because you don't really want the United States government to say Bitcoin is completely private, because now it becomes the perfect tool for money laundering, now it becomes the enemy, now we're going to shut it down.“

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(Signing out of here for today because the billionaire cope gives me some serious second hand embarrassment –  if you have something to say, you can zap me.)


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/9fc8a9b8e56742673cd099efceb02c3a5a002cb2931aa9019710462c94c09403.jpg


"Can Bitcoin be stopped? "Not really, this thing is a beast. As Mises wrote: Ideas can only be overcome by other ideas."" —Trace Mayer


The race is to spread your transaction on the network first. Think 6 degrees of freedom -- it spreads exponentially. It would only take something like 2 minutes for a transaction to spread widely enough that a competitor starting late would have little chance of grabbing very many nodes before the first one is overtaking the whole network. During those 2 minutes, the merchant's nodes can be watching for a double-spent transaction. The double-spender would not be able to blast his alternate transaction out to the world without the merchant getting it, so he has to wait before starting.
 If the real transaction reaches 90% and the double-spent tx reaches 10%, the double-spender only gets a 10% chance of not paying, and 90% chance his money gets spent. For almost any type of goods, that's not going to be worth it for the scammer.


We call this "programming for the next message." nostr:note1ye0zcafpykj8e26f34w5sdqh67mp5c0h08atq82allntz8ves3tqd9g4g9


#Bitcoin is a Race 🏁🏎

#Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

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Saylor finally comments about development on the new WBD podcast and it isn't great. Props to Peter for the constant pushback because Saylor fumbled hard.

I really got sick of him conflating open source development with government, and I really really got sick of the hyperbole of adding numbers to our numerical system and finally I really really really got sick of him constantly insinuating bitcoin developers don't know what they're doing.

This guy is bad news for bitcoin development.


I don't know why you are surprised, Saylor only uses Bitcoin for his own benefit, with Microstrategy he already made it clear that he simply took advantage of the gap of an ETF in the market, that's the only reason why he bought Bitcoin, not because he believes in its principles.

Saylor is an agent Smith.

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#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/7837ef9c052af5ec241d9fe1c2e7c68079080202a62eca16aa200424bbbfcb2c.jpg


dev/hack/day by HRF

 nostr:npub169jd0rqttrk7kgk4f9pveuhcz4d7lfzacr3hzlxplqws7yf52xlsqr5ua8 &  nostr:npub14tq8m9ggnnn2muytj9tdg0q6f26ef3snpd7ukyhvrxgq33vpnghs8shy62 will dive into the world of 'Raspiblitz', a self-hosted #bitcoin node built on Raspberry Pi.

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 nostr:npub1yevrvtp3xl42sq06usztudhleq8pdfsugw5frgaqg6lvfdewfx9q6zqrkl of PayJoin Dev Kit (sponsored by Spiral and Opensats) joins me to discuss how Bitcoin privacy could be improved with more PayJoin adoption. What’s more, it might also benefit users in consolidating their wallets or potentially even fee savings. We discuss how this could be integrated into more bitcoin wallets.

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/576/


HE AND nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND DISCUSS THEIR ALL CAPS USAGE


🤔🤡 https://image.nostr.build/d5a36764df2edc4c29ec1c4c1cd89c820adc9dec7330935314eef527be2b2459.jpg  nostr:note1r24dmg0hwzkmk44g3x8nfzal9e6q57l948udpry0r36ue33j4wns977krn


Make Cypherpunks Great Again on #bitcoin


Nostr be like:

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For experienced Bitcoiners who want more security and customization while saving on fees, the future is here https://youtu.be/GppkFrcDrk0?si=gaoqTifnJ_AsxUwJ


Bitcoiners need to understand that trusting or supporting politician A or B about "supporting" our cause does not mean whether it will remain after the elections. Because all politicians are snakes ready to attack you. Politicians are parasites along with their local FIAT currency. #bitcoin


#value4value
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I would like to see clients surface older notes based on content. This is something YouTube does very well that Nostr could benefit from.


People are speaking about decentralization between Cashu and Fedimint. I don’t have no one opinion around this. I’ll back to my work. #bitcoin


I'm very bullish of using ecash as "postage stamps" or any kind of access token because of its privacy properties. Hashcash, which Bitcoin's PoW is based on, was invented precisely to do that!


LOL a platform literally filled with MLM scams, investment scams, health scams and nostr content gets flagged as a scam

Lesson in there

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Next week https://image.nostr.build/c60dbb67627fd31ad498ad93b836daa9fc23cfa48e721a83b6fc8829419fd407.jpg


Since the gold standard was abolished in 1971, the markets are simply driven by liquidity, and the increase in liquidity that guides the markets depends on the decision of a very small group of people, therefore trading does not work, technical indicators do not work, price action does not work.

Protect yourself from the scam with a weekly or daily #Bitcoin dca.


the core downfall of mastodon is that every instance is an opportunity to censor potentially thousands of individuals on the grounds of vague reasons such as “in appropriate content”

their entire architecture is based around the idea that a single instance admin has the power to decide what its users are allowed to see, and you can’t easily move to another relay without rebuilding your social graph.

why people still use this protocol is mind boggling to me.

let users control their own feed ffs. Individuals and clients should have this power, not relay tinpot dictators. nostr:note16k0nhk0mehf6pwutlr34xlk7cvq08dyvhx7uxrp2crlextlgykaqxwa6v8


💯 nostr:note14eqzlmtyy3knvzw2tv9m59ncnp2jwc5g4m9twk2q8d58z0estfjqfjw25u


GM Nostr ☕

Think I'm gonna bite the bullet and joining the Bitaxe army soon. Which model should I get?

Have a great weekend 🧡⚡


Just connected  nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg to  nostr:npub1cwneqlnjgs3rdtk97c2ffy2df9dm5zycgj3dsg8c3z00hchxjmfqtvraju to accept lightning payments on my invoices and payment pages!

https://m.primal.net/ILbx.png


Honor guides us, glory awaits us, and #Bitcoin empowers us. Together, they shape an epic future ✊

#Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

https://m.primal.net/ILpM.jpg


A fake Sparrow Wallet app on the Apple App Store mimicked the legitimate Bitcoin wallet, deceiving users and stealing their bitcoin. Despite removal efforts, such fraudulent apps often resurface. #Bitcoin #Security #Fraud https://bitcoinnews.com/opinion/sparrow-fake-bitcoin-wallet/


OnlyFriends > OnlyFans

Few.


Wikifreedia 0.0,7 has been released!

☑ Improved editor
☑ Mentions support
☑ Reactions for soft-indications of agreement/disagreement with entries
☑ No longer using deprecated partial pubkey matches
☑ Include links to other versions of the same topics at the end of an entry

Oh, yeah, and nicer URLs:

https://wikifreedia.xyz/nip-event-register/laeserin@getalby.com

https://image.nostr.build/f9c3f7ec314289c2f9ec5bb2047ef62e01bbf2b45a92e2d5d7678a21d94ddca5.png


🎧

https://fountain.fm/episode/dSUrc4X1Kb8caO41qqsv


Track all your lightning ⚡ and eCash 💵 activity.

Now live on BoardwalkCash.com

Your friend didn’t want his eCash? Click Reclaim and the cash will instantly be in your wallet.

Big week for features, now we’re ready for giveaways next week 🎉

https://m.primal.net/ILSE.mp4


GM Nostr and fellow single sat/vB mempool enjoyoooors ☕

Great day for some UTXO management and ⚡ channel opens.

 https://image.nostr.build/87890a7650265116efa5df3ad73215cef440edc5bff761d0a93f6acea89850bc.jpg


GM 🇺🇸
nostr:nevent1qqsxp5v4xptdeyq0le57gt6vt3whk9vptfzpc0dxvzum3sqgzcyys2cppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzpfsw08swmt23qrt4gwmxnegnm0quy9cw36dhfldca9c6l50qu6qnqvzqqqqqqyp9td0v


I think it's starting to happen

one thing I would like to see is niche sites (e.g. forks of wikifreedia's code) that focus on a topic

the first one I thought of was medicine, which is a highly censored topic

all it would need is a:
* domain name
* UI that matches the topic
* filtering all content via the niche site's choosen category

launching a "nostrmd.com" is basically a weekend project


truth by consensus was only superior to truth by authority (Encyclopedia Britannica)

truth by conflict and integration of opposites is the return to nature

https://image.nostr.build/4a535fb8f4bab684bb5497fb1c01d66e2f7119e25e665de4cb794acb06a68565.png


BREAKING: RoboSats users don't need to solve captchas. Web 2.0 developers in disbelief!


Good Friday and weekend Bitcoiners! #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5198f92e8f4cff363bb4b1cf954217683cc562fc5829a4cf65bfc1284cf3ed52.jpg


"Compared to Bitcoin, not even gold is safe…" —Robert Breedlove


It doesn’t only ETH is the problem, but also own State create laws idiots allowing these things happen. The State is a big joke. #bitcoin


"nice blockchain you've got there, would be a pity if it goes proof-of-stake and then we put an ETF around it..."

are the eth people actually happy about the approval? I mean, it was obviously always make-believe decentralization, but at least it wasn't soooo obvious!


OK, I officially have too many GitHub notifications.


Why the SEC pivot?

Because banks get crushed being forced to buy negative real yielding bonds. Selling #Bitcoin  and now “Crypto” ETFs help them to monetize insane debt levels and inflation.

Banks call the shots, not government.

In the end, there is #Bitcoin  and everything else
https://m.primal.net/IKoC.mov


 nostr:npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s of  nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n rejoins me on the show to talk about a new idea for a bitcoin soft fork that hopefully avoids some of the ‘horse trading’ dynamic that existed amongst other proposals. Listen in to learn more about the different paradigm that Rusty introduces here, so that developers can build more functionality and efficiency in, hopefully so that more people can use Bitcoin in self-custody.

Bitcoin Script background
GSR overview
GSR benefits
What is varops
Contrast with APO or LNHANCE?
Will it enable shitcoins and spam?

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/577/


ETH is a scam nostr:note15zyyygu7wdhcysakszp7kuc60402su40eay8vsmuf4zer40znk3qmkghmv


Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but the court ruling that forced the SEC to accept bitcoin ETFs is going to apply equally to ETH. Expect an ETH ETF soon.


Just ordered my DC-1 payed via my own node running off of my nostr:npub1z3r2s5020hplyvzrkhc04lt2yvwc3anlmtr8kerjhp8qj5m5yhyqvuzmvf Sovran Pro connected to Zeus!! nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h

This is how you future.
 https://image.nostr.build/18bf1e5f81f001560a799b29cf54a019ec603937ba3641525732eb5bedb3a311.png


When a market becomes overly concentrated (e.g Google’s search) the KPIs become clear and both very profitable and straightforward to game them.

That’s how we ended up with SEO, making the internet suck more, and leading us to optimize for stupid shit humans don’t care about nor gain any type of value.

Just arbitrage.

Nostr, if it becomes sufficiently decentralized, enables the long-tail in an unprecedented way, which obsoletes the model of serving KPIs over serving humans.


Thank you for the support so far guys 🧡

nostr:npub1jcympy69pht7ptan39se4nd09e4q66qhey649uu3rczm2zh88c7s0n2890

https://fountain.fm/episode/rmzhBwsSZOiPa74hhoKY

 https://image.nostr.build/33ab66dea95580b9c6f49385ed3ba65933c28adf4063c69b38deac0a166c29f8.jpg


As certain as the dawn, your destiny intertwines with the magic of #Bitcoin ⚡

#Nostr #Plebchain #Zap

https://m.primal.net/IKpG.jpg


This is a fact, not FUD 🙂 nostr:note1r6w8rt0n9236sdndak9p44zpzntetadk6sw8lsmgr57x25lyxfusf7nhrp


Centralized Lighting wallets will be captured by the regulations. While self custody wallets like Zeus, Phoenix and others will raise as non-KYC alternatives #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/df4af2abf6d98ccf5c7f711067c2fe196371b5235a735856a86ac07d70ea42e6.jpg


GM Nostr, we launch TODAY

Top zap wins a tablet.

SEND IT ☀⚡☀

https://m.primal.net/IKkU.mp4


SilentPayments.xyz: What Are Silent Payments, Bounties & More

"I've built out a website with all of that info and more to do what I can to speed up Silent Payments adoption," announced  nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/silentpayments-xyz/


SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO LIVE LIFE WITH INTEGRITY.

FADE THOSE WHO DO NOT.


The real cheat code is having Bitcoin friends.


I'm in love with how highlighter renders kind:1s

https://image.nostr.build/9e410ec523718d956e5e62ed9c4c9ee69603efa32001bd212d3dd6ad3ccf975f.png


You can now share stablecash with anyone who has a camera. Simply click Send, enter the amount, and share the QR code for them to scan.

They will receive the eCash instantly in their browser.

Magic with BoardwalkCash.com 🪄

https://m.primal.net/IKjx.mov


running nostter

it's been a while since i've checked out https://nostter.app and let me say that it's coming along nicely. it's super fast compared to other nostr web clients.

i do wish the home feed had replies and new notes separated instead of lumping together in one feed.


Harambe died May 28, 2016 and Bitcoin was trading at around $460 at the time, he tried to warn us and get us to ape in, if you listened you'd be up 151X

https://image.nostr.build/bdf3869848c75d0252c2d698313aef76b23e85c59da89e4415726053e457144b.jpg


MANDIBLES THEN BITCOIN STANDARD.

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.

https://m.primal.net/IKFv.png


It's #Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕, not Shitcoin Pizza Day
 https://image.nostr.build/dd782f5cbafeb8610a8a3fe0a4be386e6bcac373a28a4aed4eb62c59dee91cfa.jpg


bitcoin-cli getblock 00000000000000ecbbff6bafb7efa2f7df05b227d5c73dca8f2635af32a2e949 0 | tail -c+92167 | for ((o=0;o<946;++o)) ; do read -rN420 x ; echo -n ${x::130}${x:132:130}${x:264:130} ; done | xxd -r -p | tail -c+9 | head -c184292 > bitcoin.pdf
 - nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp

#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/222.png


😁 nostr:note1akzenm4kt5n0vpzyk5ve54488ttx6z49sckmn845fu7gprz60tsqxg8yp0


Thank you  nostr:npub1c8l997847szpt6prwug6usmfl48v7afun9d4zt6f5xexhrdps45sctmg0w

https://m.primal.net/IKVY.png


Local-first software is a big deal.

We’re correcting the sins of the cloud computing fever days.

nostr:note1dfz5vq72ftss84q77pqzx67r9gey830uwkwr8ax8uztr53cearesz374n5


If the success of Bitcoin and its ecosystem is still dependent on or even just affected by which politician or bureaucrat is in office, cypherpunks must write more code.


In this excerpt from my book, I argue that people draw the wrong lessons from Pizza Day. Instead of day dreaming about being a lucky gambler, you should be providing value instead.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitcoin-magazine-books/the-wrong-lessons-of-pizza-day


https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/federation-and-political-spam

"remember to always vote trump"

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36572079-8d8f-4955-8ef4-229a3cef51de_1698x1062.png

The remaining posts are all of the form “hello <X> world”, where X is a random adjective (or, in one case, the word “adjectives”).

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F034c443e-8225-478a-b615-ea7b3f2c29fb_1431x1303.jpeg


Happy #Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕
https://m.primal.net/IKGF.jpg


If you have a wallet, exchange or any other project, please add PayJoin as soon as possible. #bitcoin


how is this even real lmao these people are insane nostr:note1yc2cjflxyytxwuy79uzlzdsw3n8l402p75npjh73umh8mryxsktqjce7tt


The broad crypto industry rallied hard soon after the White House threatened to veto the bill that would let banks custody digital assets. And now it’s making a big difference, with Congress voting strongly for it, the White House pulling their veto threat, etc.

While it’s right to pass that bill and let banks custody them if they want, it’s sad to see that the crypto industry response to that was like 100x bigger than the response to all of the anti-privacy stuff that has been happening.

The desire of people in the industry for banks to help pump their bags is way bigger than their desire to pave a way for freedom tech in general.

Much love to all those building and supporting real freedom tech.


With a one-day project nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk got more upvotes on HN than all other Nostr-related submissions combined, good publicity for us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426099

If there is one thing the majority of HN types like very much are these hacky "serverless" "single-page web apps". I'm sure we have a lot of other Nostr apps they would appreciate.


Pet project of the day: Oracolo.
It is a minimalist Nostr blog that consists of a *single* ~140K html file. Personalize it with your npub and upload it where do you like, it just works. It also runs without a web server, so if you don't have a web site you can simply send it via email/dm to showcase your tales.
https://image.nostr.build/7ee63d88f54df0c0b4ee0c37dc19c78141ee27d0154eefaff303156cb1987d0a.jpg

Examples:
https://raw.githack.com/dtonon/oracolo/master/examples/opensats.html
https://raw.githack.com/dtonon/oracolo/master/examples/hodlbod.html
https://raw.githack.com/dtonon/oracolo/master/examples/fiatjaf.html

Source and how-to: https://github.com/dtonon/oracolo

Take it as a didactic experiment, it's no production ready, indeed it has some limitations (no SEO friendly structure), but can work as a temporary solution (e.g. coming soon and parking pages), and it is still an example of how easy it is to create a Nostr-powered blog and deploy it on a low-tech infrastructure.


https://t.co/ONPArsQHsW #bitcoin


Happy #bitcoin Pizza Day!


This made me a good laugh and reminds me we're just doing great while building here at Nostr #nostrDev

"The case of blogging on ATProto with WhiteWind, and the experiences of the developer, however also indicate that ATProto is not particularly conductive yet to build new applications on top of, as you cannot meaningfully use the existing social graph of Bluesky for your new products."

https://fediversereport.com/?na=v&nk=406-3c4f3127e3&id=67


💎💎💎 New release

Coracle 0.4.5 is out! This release was over two months in the making, and includes a whole lot of small quality-of-life updates, as well as a complete re-write of relay selection and feed loading.

The flagship feature for this update though is CUSTOM FEEDS. One of the biggest promises of nostr has always been to "give control to the user". This is a huge idea, and while being theoretically possible, the tools haven't really been available to make that happen until now.

https://v.nostr.build/8GERG.mp4

With Coracle's custom feed builder, you can not only choose what people or topics you want to hear from, you can also incorporate lists and DVMs into the mix as well. And because feeds can be saved and shared, it's now trivial to view other people's lists and feeds. The "marketplace of algorithms" is now a reality!

Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76r0v3kxymmy9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3camnwvaz7tmrdphhyatn9ekkj6m9v35kcem9wghxxmmd9uq3camnwvaz7tmrda6kuarjd9jhxtnxd9shg6npvchxxmmd9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7qg6waehxw309ac8junpd45kgtnxd9shg6npvchxxmmd9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqypaaaaa7ytwcuk05vq8qgj498gw0jadfm37j0h6cxw780kmcffvq26fjcly  for his help making this release both pretty and functional.

Full change log:

- [x] Accept npubs in people input
- [x] Skip notifying admin when the person joining/leaving groups is the admin
- [x] Remove group share modal, skip straight to create invite link
- [x] Rank groups by WoT
- [x] Fix subtle navigation bugs
- [x] Show a little more metadata on relay card
- [x] Make groups deletable
- [x] Use new utility libraries
- [x] Fix network filter
- [x] Refactor subscribe/load
- [x] Switch to chips for relay controls for more granularity
- [x] Fix group search
- [x] Join invite relays in background during onboarding
- [x] Republish user profile data when joining a new relay
- [x] Create new note publish status HUD
- [x] Add wallet setup onboarding item
- [x] Remember theme after logging out
- [x] Collapse apps in note details modal
- [x] Add custom feeds
- [x] Introduce new in-memory relay
- [x] Re-work feed controls
- [x] Re-work utility library
- [x] Make buttons, chips, and inputs sleeker
- [x] Clean up onboarding with an invite
- [x] Only tag parent event in reactions
- [x] Fix url hashes, render code blocks
- [x] Use bitcoin connect instead of webln
- [x] Fix double submit on group create dialog
- [x] Add mentions to note info dialog